The Fourth Reader: Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking. Designed for the Higher Classes in Our Public and Private SchoolsPhinney & Company, 1847 - 408 páginas |
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... EXAMPLES . na'tion appear sta'tion endear ' ab'sent defeat ac'tion repeat ' invita'tion admoni'tion constitu'tion everlast'ing NOTE 1. Besides the primary , a half or secondary accent is given upon words when they consist of several ...
... EXAMPLES . na'tion appear sta'tion endear ' ab'sent defeat ac'tion repeat ' invita'tion admoni'tion constitu'tion everlast'ing NOTE 1. Besides the primary , a half or secondary accent is given upon words when they consist of several ...
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... EXAMPLES . rea'sona " ble mem'ora " ble ex'piato'ry in " termit'tent fun " damental in " dividual NOTE 2. The meaning of a word is sometimes changed by changing the place of accent . EXAMPLES . Nouns . ab'stract com'pound Verbs . Nouns ...
... EXAMPLES . rea'sona " ble mem'ora " ble ex'piato'ry in " termit'tent fun " damental in " dividual NOTE 2. The meaning of a word is sometimes changed by changing the place of accent . EXAMPLES . Nouns . ab'stract com'pound Verbs . Nouns ...
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... EXAMPLES . 1. Brutus hath told you that Cæsar was ambitious . 2. Brutus hath told you that Cæsar was ambitious . 3. Brutus hath told you that Cæsar was ambitious . 4. Brutus hath told you that Cæsar was ambitious . It will be observed ...
... EXAMPLES . 1. Brutus hath told you that Cæsar was ambitious . 2. Brutus hath told you that Cæsar was ambitious . 3. Brutus hath told you that Cæsar was ambitious . 4. Brutus hath told you that Cæsar was ambitious . It will be observed ...
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... EXAMPLES . True politeness is based upon sincerity ; it flows from the heart ; is equally fascinating in the cottage , the court , and the camp ; and is capable of softening even an enemy . The waters swept over the drowning wretches ...
... EXAMPLES . True politeness is based upon sincerity ; it flows from the heart ; is equally fascinating in the cottage , the court , and the camp ; and is capable of softening even an enemy . The waters swept over the drowning wretches ...
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... EXAMPLES . UP ! let us to the fields away ! AWAKE ! ARISE ! or be forever fallen ! ' T is HORRIBLE ! ' t is HIDEOUS , as ' t is HATEFUL ! But what have I to do with this ? Call me their traitor ! Thou injurious tribune ! Within thine ...
... EXAMPLES . UP ! let us to the fields away ! AWAKE ! ARISE ! or be forever fallen ! ' T is HORRIBLE ! ' t is HIDEOUS , as ' t is HATEFUL ! But what have I to do with this ? Call me their traitor ! Thou injurious tribune ! Within thine ...
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Página 373 - Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Página 45 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Página 401 - I ask gentlemen, sir, What means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?
Página 48 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me of half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies; and what's his reason .' I am a jew : Hath not a jew eyes...
Página 373 - She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty; and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house...
Página 374 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there; And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead there reign alone.
Página 385 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand, undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 373 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, - the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods - rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Página 385 - And let us reflect, that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world ; during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking, through blood and slaughter, his long-lost liberty...
Página 74 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd...